# Stone from Plalangan (9th-10th c. CE)

Arlo Griffiths

Author of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths

Contributor: Arlo Griffiths

Identifier: DHARMA_INSIDENKPlalangan

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSIDENKPlalangan.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Kawi]

Commit: 2026-11-09 08:51 (6580fa0), last modified 2026-09-19 07:35
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## Edition

⟨1⟩ O[ṁ] v¿ai?⟨i⟩ṣṇave paścama⟨2⟩[1×]nāya śaṅkhadharā⟨3⟩ya
Ihasth¡a!⟨ā⟩(nā)ya ma⟨4⟩[1×] Ehi laghu laghu ⟨5⟩ (sva)sti svasti
(vaśadhara?) mā ⟨6⟩ [ra]kṣa mā pālaya mā ⟨7⟩ (v)ārāya kuṣmāṇḍādīḥ ⟨8⟩
(vi)nāśāyasva hūṁ ⟨9⟩ sphaṭ· namaḥ svāh(ā) ⟨10⟩ tā [1×]

## Apparatus

⟨3⟩ ma⟨4⟩[1×] • One expect Ehi here, but while it is feasible to restore
hi at the start of line 4, it seems impossible to read E at the end of
line 3.

## Translation

Om, for Viṣṇu, who […], who bears the conch, whose abode is here, …, go,
swift, swift, hail, hail, … me, protect me, guard me, stop the Kuṣmāṇḍa
(demons) and others. Destroy! Hūm! Sphaṭ! Namaḥ! Svāhā!

## Commentary

⟨10⟩ The two akṣaras are centered on the line.

## Bibliography

Provisional decipherment in Ari Setyastuti & Rita Margaretha
Setianingsih 1994. First serious attempt at decipherment in Titi Surti
Nastiti et al. 2024. This digital edition is based on the latter.

### Primary

Ari Setyastuti & Rita Margaretha Setianingsih. 1994. “Prasasti
Plalangan: Data Waisnawa di Jawa.” BA(Y) 14 (2), pp. 213–215. DOI:
10.30883/jba.v14i2.726. [URL].

HerniPramastuti+al2015_01

Titi Surti Nastiti, Churmatin Nasoichah, Andri Restiyadi, Hedwi
Prihatmoko, Arlo Griffiths, Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, Adeline Levivier &
Tyassanti Kusumo Dewanti. 2024. Survei prasasti zaman Hindu-Buddha di
Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta dan Provinsi Jawa Tengah, tahun 2023.
Jakarta: KPG (Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia); Badan Riset dan Inovasi
Nasional (BRIN), Organisasi Riset Arkeologi, Bahasa dan Sastra; École
française d’Extrême-Orient. [URL]. Pages ???–???, section 2.2.21.